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Testing The Effect Of Stress On Externalizing Behaviors: Is Growth Mindset A Moderator?, Kelsey Ann Walker
Testing The Effect Of Stress On Externalizing Behaviors: Is Growth Mindset A Moderator?, Kelsey Ann Walker
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This study aimed to examine the potential buffering role of growth mindset of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in reducing adolescents' externalizing behaviors in the context of normative stress (i.e., family, peer, academic, overall) during adolescence. Moderation analyses conducted in the PROCESS macro for SPSS revealed that family stress was significantly associated with externalizing behaviors in adolescents, and this relation was moderated by growth mindset of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. The conditional effect analyses revealed that the magnitude of the association between family stress and externalizing behaviors weakened as the levels of growth mindset increased. Academic stress, peer stress, and overall …
Stress And Subjective Well-Being Among Online College Students: Examining The Role Of Social Support, Angela Robinson
Stress And Subjective Well-Being Among Online College Students: Examining The Role Of Social Support, Angela Robinson
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between stress and well-being among online undergraduate college students, and to explore the role of social support as a potential moderator in this relationship. This study utilized cross-sectional survey data collected from 175 undergraduate students enrolled exclusively in online courses during the spring 2021 semester at an urban, public university in the midsouth US. Roughly 65% of the sample was comprised of nontraditional-aged students, those 24 years and older. A series of MANOVAs revealed statistically significant differences in perceived stress and social support across age, gender, and race. Regression results …
Exploring The Moderating Role Of Ethnic Identity In The Relation Between Adolescent Stress And Life Satisfaction, Allyson Topps
Exploring The Moderating Role Of Ethnic Identity In The Relation Between Adolescent Stress And Life Satisfaction, Allyson Topps
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Research in the field of positive psychology has expanded knowledge about factors that contribute to well-being. Less attention has focused on the role of ethnic identity in youths reactions to environmental factors and perceived life experiences. This study examined the potential protective effect of ethnic identity in the relation between adolescents normative social stressors (family and peer) and a minority stressor (perceived discrimination) and life satisfaction. Data was collected via self-report measures from 417 adolescents (age range 14 to 18, 63.0% girls) at a public high school in the mid-south region of the United States. Moderation analyses were conducted in …
Self-Reactive Influences On Simulation Anxiety In Graduate Occupational Therapy Students, Kendal Lee Booker
Self-Reactive Influences On Simulation Anxiety In Graduate Occupational Therapy Students, Kendal Lee Booker
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This pragmatic multiple case, single site research explored the sources and manifestations of simulation anxiety in Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) students at a health sciences institution in the Southeastern United States. The study involved five, second-year MOT students who reported experiencing very much simulation anxiety following their first year within their occupational therapy program. Self-reactive influences of challenge, feedback, and self-efficacy were examined. The challenge levels of simulations, the provision of feedback, and the levels of self-efficacy were perceived as acceptable. Sources of simulation anxiety were identified; internal sources included having high personal expectations and external sources involved experiencing …
Photonic Probing Of Structural Deformation Of Brain Tissues Due To Stress And Alcohol, Shiva Bhandari
Photonic Probing Of Structural Deformation Of Brain Tissues Due To Stress And Alcohol, Shiva Bhandari
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Mesoscopic optical physics based Partial Wave Spectroscopy(PWS) and Inverse Participation Ratio(IPR) techniques are sensitive to nanoscale and submicron-scale changes respectively occurring in the biological cells. These changes occur due to several factors; stress and fetal alcoholism are deemed to be the major ones. The effects of chronic stress in adult brain cells and fetal alcoholism on the brain cells of fetus are studied using the respective animal models. PWS studies the effect of stress in brain tissues by measuring the optical backscattering spectra and quantifying the statistical properties of the nano-architecture of the tissues by the analysis of the fluctuating …
Professional Identity, Commitment, And Intent To Persist: The Facilitative Role Of Mindfulness For Pre-Service Teachers, Sean Holden
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Researchers have long observed issues with teacher retention, particularly early in ones career (Ingersoll, 2003; Gray & Taie, 2015). In order to address this issue, many researchers have investigated retention by exploring the development of ones perceptions and beliefs about the profession. Encompassing this trend, interest has been placed on teachers professional identity, a comprehensive construct acknowledging the influence of personal factors and internalized external experience (Schaefer et al., 2014). Based in this perspective, Hong (2010) proposed that ones beliefs about teaching and perceptions of self-efficacy, value, empowerment, burnout, and commitment are particularly salient in the decision to remain in …
Impacts Of Hunting And Life-History Stage On The Stress Physiology And Body Condition Of Fall And Wintering Mallards (Anas Platyrhynchos), Jerad Richard Henson
Impacts Of Hunting And Life-History Stage On The Stress Physiology And Body Condition Of Fall And Wintering Mallards (Anas Platyrhynchos), Jerad Richard Henson
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Waterfowl face a multitude of stressors across the fall and winter. These stressors include energetic demands associated with annual cycle stage, weather, habitat availability, and waterfowl hunting seasons. Stressful stimuli elicit a physiologic stress response culminating with the release of corticosterone (CORT). CORT aids in survival and recovery over the short-term, but if elevated over a long period it can lead to decrements in health. To avoid the potential harmful effects of prolonged elevations in CORT, some birds seasonally dampen their response to a predictable stressor. The aim of this study was to examine the changes in stress physiology and …
Relationship Among Teacher Absenteeism, Evaluation Scores, And Satisfaction With Teaching At The Elementary School Level, Marilyn Denice Russell
Relationship Among Teacher Absenteeism, Evaluation Scores, And Satisfaction With Teaching At The Elementary School Level, Marilyn Denice Russell
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Teacher absenteeism is a growing problem in the United States.Teachers miss more days in the educational field than in any other workforce according to Cheng (2013). Educational leaders are beginning to pay close attention to the number of days teachers are missing as they seek waysto improve school effectiveness. Seven elementary schools were surveyed using Bentley and Rempels (1980) Purdue Teacher Opinionnaire to determine what relationships exist between 89 third through fifth gradeteachers in a small southwestern school district in Tennessee. This quantitative study addresses relationships in terms of teachers usage of sick and personal days, the teacher's professional TVAAS …
The Effect Of Predatory Encounters On The Hpa Axis Responsiveness And Memory Of Avian Prey, Blake Carlton Jones
The Effect Of Predatory Encounters On The Hpa Axis Responsiveness And Memory Of Avian Prey, Blake Carlton Jones
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Presumably, a threatening encounter with a predator activates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in free-living animals in what is commonly called a stress response, which may help mediate the lasting memory of the attack. However, these assumptions are based on experiments that do not resemble what free-living animals experience in nature, and typically involve laboratory models that can have considerably different physiological responses than their free-living counterparts. To address this gap in our understanding, I developed novel methods to examine the physiological stress response and its effects on learning and memory in ecologically relevant contexts. Specifically, I assessed the effect of …
Work Meaning And Its Buffering Effect On The Relationship Between Perceived Stress And Health Risk Factors, Christina Locke Ingram
Work Meaning And Its Buffering Effect On The Relationship Between Perceived Stress And Health Risk Factors, Christina Locke Ingram
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The current study explores the association between perceived stress and health risk factors (heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, high blood glucose/diabetes, tobacco use, problematic alcohol use, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and depressive symptoms) among a sample of working adults. The moderating effect of work meaning on the relationship between perceived stress and health risk factors was examined. It was hypothesized that greater levels of perceived stress would be significantly associated with a higher number of total health risks and that the relationship between perceived stress and total health risks would be buffered by work meaning. Although the …
Wellness As A Mitigating Factor Against Burnout For Public School Teachers, Michelle Welch Brasfield
Wellness As A Mitigating Factor Against Burnout For Public School Teachers, Michelle Welch Brasfield
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The incidence of teacher stress and burnout has been researched for many years in various geographic areas and populations. In more recent years, wellness has been proposed as a mitigating factor in reducing the incidence of burnout in the education profession. Wellness involves a holistic approach in determining the positive coping skills and practices that an individual utilizes across all life areas. Research to determine if there is a relationship between burnout and specific wellness practices may provide educational leaders with methods to assist teachers in lowering the occurrence of burnout. The professional school counselor is one educational leader who …
Can Wearable Sensors Help Assess The Reliability Of Self-Reports In Mobile Health Studies?, Hillol Sarker
Can Wearable Sensors Help Assess The Reliability Of Self-Reports In Mobile Health Studies?, Hillol Sarker
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Self-report in the form of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) has been the primary instrument to collect measurements from participants in their natural environment. Given numerous sources of biases and inaccuracies in self-report, assessing and improving the reliability of self-report has been the subject of continuing research. However, to date, there exist only limited lab based methods to check the veracity of collected self-report data. Increasing adoption of sensors in field studies that sometimes can passively measure the same phenomena that have been traditionally included in EMA self-report has opened up a new opportunity to assess the reliability of self-reports.In this …
Assessing Measurement Invariance Of The Diabetes Stress Questionnaire In Youth With Type 1 Diabetes, Rebecca Catherine Kamody
Assessing Measurement Invariance Of The Diabetes Stress Questionnaire In Youth With Type 1 Diabetes, Rebecca Catherine Kamody
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To evaluate the factor structure and measurement invariance of the Diabetes Stress Questionnaire (DSQ), a measure of diabetes-specific stress, across sex, age (<9th grade vs. >9th grade), and glycemic control (optimal vs. suboptimal). Data from 318 adolescent participants were pooled from four archival data sets and the ongoing PRYDE (Predicting Resiliency in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes) study in which the DSQ was completed. Confirmatory factor and measurement invariance analyses were conducted to confirm the proposed factor structure and measurement invariance across sex, age, and glycemic control. The DSQ factor structure was found to have an acceptable fit, which was invariant across …
An Examination Of School Principals', Teachers', And Other Support Staff's Perception Of Stress In The School Setting, Shunji Quenae Brown-Woods
An Examination Of School Principals', Teachers', And Other Support Staff's Perception Of Stress In The School Setting, Shunji Quenae Brown-Woods
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Job stress in school staff is a concern for school systems and has an impact on many organizational factors within the school setting. The extent to which school personnel are aware of their stress, coping mechanisms and coping strategies is the focus of this study. The literature review highlights various aspects of stress including the physiology of stress, economic implications, specific job stressors in the field of education, burnout indicators for teachers, principal's awareness of stress, and coping strategies available and reportedly used by school staff.Three job type groups participated in the study: principals, teachers, and support staff. The study …
The Effects Of Personal Grief On Organizational Outcomes: A Qualitative Investigation, Charlotte Ann Davis
The Effects Of Personal Grief On Organizational Outcomes: A Qualitative Investigation, Charlotte Ann Davis
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Most individuals experience considerable emotional pain and grief due to the death of someone near and dear to them in their lifetimes. These painful experiences have the potential to affect individually-valued and organizationally-valued outcomes. In most organizations, employees are provided with a very limited amount of time for coping with the grieving process before they are expected to perform the normal duties and responsibilities associated with their work roles. Even though we know that the process of grief associated with the loss of a loved one can have traumatic consequences for the employee, there is little in the research literature, …
The Relations Of Ethnicity And Stress With Smoking, Nicole Lynn Workman
The Relations Of Ethnicity And Stress With Smoking, Nicole Lynn Workman
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Previous research has shown that African American teens are less likely to smoke than Caucasian teens, but prevalance of smoking among African American adults is nearly equal that of Caucasian adults. These findings suggest African Americans may increase their uptake of tobacco later in life. One variable that may contribute to the increase in smoking is stress. The current study sought to explore ethnic differences in the amount of stress as well as in the strength of the association of stress with smoking among African Amercian vs. Caucasian youth. This cross-sectional study examined 4,443 high school students recruited from the …
The Relationship Between Measured Levels Of Stress And Coping Preferences Of North Carolina Elementary Principals, Devon Carson
The Relationship Between Measured Levels Of Stress And Coping Preferences Of North Carolina Elementary Principals, Devon Carson
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The purpose of the study was to examine the sources of stress and the coping preferences of elementary school principals in North Carolina. Secondary analysis addressed demographic differences and any relationships between stress and coping preferences.Data were collected through the survey research method and was primarily descriptive and correlational. A questionnaire was emailed to 500 participants randomly selected for this research, 222 responded. The first section of questions consisted of the Administrative Stress Index (ASI), which comprised 35 stressors principals confront in their work.The second set of questions included the Roesch Coping Preference Scale (RCPS), consisting of 21 statements to …